W. Kamau Bell

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1,269 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 14 Oct

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The Commercial Break · TCB Infomercial: W Kamau Bell · 14 Oct 2025 podcast

But you don't know the – and I really – from that I took a lot of what they were mad about was the circumstances they were born into that they couldn't escape.

And somebody had weaponized that saying it's black people's fault.

Meanwhile, they lived in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, a town that's not that black.

So you're mad at black people.

And there's not that many black people around here.

And the ones who are, know you're in the Klan, so they're not messing with you.

They all know you're in the Klan.

So I think the idea being that, again, it's the site that people's...

fears are being weaponized against them.

So these guys live in a town where there's not a lot of jobs, not a lot of opportunities.

And somebody has told them, especially at that point, it's Barack Obama's fault, the black guy.

And the thing that I saw, because at the time when the episode aired, Trump was still not being really taken seriously as a candidate.

And some people were like, why would you do this show about the Klan?

Who cares about the Klan?

And cut to a year later, Trump is like an ongoing concern and going to win.

And then some of that episode, it's like since it's aired, it's grown bigger because it sort of pointed the direction that the country was going.

I won the genetic lottery.

I'm six foot four.

I'm six four.

Well, because we built the country on that.

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